“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to implement scrollbar styling”

Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme... by baby on Sunday April 05, 2015 @11:59PM (#9326410)

I'm surprised to see this point of view upvoted so much. If you browse the web through chrome you might not notice it because you can style the scrollbar in chrome.

But if you scroll the same websites in Firefox (which is my main browser), those will stand out. It's not only the scrollbar of the page, it's also any scrollbar that you can see inside a iframe or a textarea or really any divs with overflow:scroll;

If you think this is silly then you must think CSS and styling page is silly

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Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme... by SwellJoe on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:19AM (#9326492)

I think it has to do with my approach to the web, and my preferences for web design. I like minimalism, generally speaking, and I like consistency. I think Google UIs are fine. But, I don't use Chrome, so I don't know what the difference is. Maybe it would be amazing with custom-styled scrollbars. But, I'm content with them looking like my native OS scrollbars (I use Linux/Gnome 3, so they are grey, flat, and slim; quite unobtrusive on any page, whether light or dark).

I also tend to find most dark web designs (which is what a lot of these comments are talking about) just plain ugly. So, that's another factor. I've never made a dark website or web UI.

All of this is opinion, of course. My opinion should probably matter less than someone that really cares a lot about it.

I think it's silly because I think the way so many people approach web design is silly. Standardized UI components are not a bad thing. They are a very good thing. I like it when web pages look like they belong on my computer screen.

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Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme... by baby on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:37AM (#9339222)

> dark web designs

It's not only dark web designs. Actually if you look at any native application on your OS you will see "styled" scrollbars. And that never shocked you because they are styled according to the app.

> I like it when web pages look like they belong on my computer screen.

This is what "view > page style > no style" is for.

CSS was created to "style" page, and the scrollbar is part of the page. That you like CSS or not it seems silly to say that the scrollbar is the limit where you can style everything BUT the scroll bar on a page.

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Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme... by DanBC on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:02AM (#9339279)

The scroll bar isn't part of the page. A scroll bar appearin or not is controlled by the window size, and that's controlled by the browser and window manager and those are controlled by the user.

The page designer has no control over the display size.

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Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme... by baby on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:15AM (#9352548)

I understand what you are trying to say. It's hard to realize when you are not looking at it but actually, any field with "overflow:scroll" has a scroll bar. And you can control the size of those fields. If you pay attention you will see that a huge amount of websites do have scrollbars in their design, many avoid them because they can't be stylized in firefox, and many use javascript to try to style them.

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